Sunday, May 25, 2008

Bree's first Dance Recital

A couple of weeks ago Bree had her first dance recital and seriously I had so much fun watching her experience all the fun. Bree and I had to go early for her dress rehersal, and thank heavens Celeste took care of Sophie for me because I would have gone mad with her there!! Anyways Bree takes dance from my teacher that I took from since I was three. It is so funny to hear Nancy(her teacher) scream because I remember it and at first it would give me butterflies in my stomach like I was in trouble again. Bree was amazing, I thought she would be scared of all the lights and the big stage but she loved it. My mom came down and took me and Bree to dinner and then I had so much fun getting Bree ready for her big debut. She loves makeup so I let her have everything even mascara!! I then dropped her off backstage with some of the older girls and then watched her do her thing on the stage. Of course I thought she was the best and it will be fun to see if she enjoys dancing as much as I did. Here is one of the scrapbook pages I have done. I love her funny pose because she loves to do all these weird poses whenever I take pictures of her and I think it comes from watching Americas Next Top Model with me it is so funny.

Also everyone asked how I did all the pictures from the wheeler farm post and I will try to explain as much as possible how to do it. So most of the pictures were blury so I had to be creative to try to fix them. So I use photoshop Elements(the free version for 30 days!!) but if you have any of the fancier ones I bet they would work better. Anyways, I played around with different filters and so you can add sepia or black and white or pink ect. there are a ton of different ones. You just click on those and it will layer it on your picture super easy!! The pink ladies picture is a little bit trickier so if you are interested let me know and I can try to explain. But it is pretty cool because you can have any black and white picure or sepia and then bring out any flowers of rosy cheeks or whatever and make the color show through the picture.I love photoshop and I really just play around and try different things and then tada you have something kinda cool.Also there are so many tutorials out there that take you step by step on how to do things from croping a picture to whitening teeth.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Wheeler Farm

Last week we went to Wheeler Farm with Bree's Preschool class and these are some of the cute pictures of Bree and her friends. Bree had so much fun feeding the Sheep and watching the farmer rub the pigs down. She was terrified of the tractor and finally her teacher was able to get her on it for a picture. After we had a picnic with her class, most of the kids went and fed the ducks bread. I think all the animals were so active because it was 9:00 in the morning which really made Sophie happy because she was able to talk to the sheep with her wonderful bark!! She has dog sounds and sheep sounds mixed up it was hilarious!! Bree has made some great friends at preschool and almost every day she asks me which friend she gets to play with today. Thank heavens all the girls are in the same class next year otherwise I think Bree would probablly have been fine but confused about where all her friends were.